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Category: Open Science

From Recommendations to Implementation: Increasing Access to Climate Data for Earth Intelligence

by Taylor Campbell, Jan Ainali Open Access, Open Climate, Open Science

Screenshot by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Earlier this year, Creative Commons published our Recommendations for Better Sharing of Climate Data, a seminal resource to help national and intergovernmental climate data-producing agencies use legal terms, licenses, and metadata values that ensure climate data is accessible, shareable, and reusable. Our goal is to…

CC Supports a new Digital Knowledge Act for Europe

by Brigitte Vézina, Monica Granados Copyright, Open Access, Open Data, Open Knowledge, Open Science, Policy

A medieval manuscript representing three richly-clad women in front of a green, hilly landscape with castles in the background.

Anonymous, “Prudence, Wisdom and Knowledge”, National Library of the Netherlands, Public Domain Mark. In December last year, the Communia Association for the Public Domain — of which Creative Commons (CC) is a member — asked the European Commission and European Parliament to consider the development of a Digital Knowledge Act. In this blog post, we…

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Funds New Project to Openly License Life Sciences Preprints

by Creative Commons Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Sustaining the Commons

CZI brand marks used by permission from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Creative Commons is excited to announce new programmatic support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to help make openly licensed preprints the primary vehicle of scientific dissemination.

A Tale of Two Global Challenges: Climate research is not as open as COVID-19 research

by Cable Green, Monica Granados Open Climate, Open Science

In early 2020, something unusual happened in the academic community. A normally guarded community accustomed to holding their data and research papers close, began to adopt much more open practices. Researchers came in droves to preprint servers to post versions of their research papers – that had not yet been peer reviewed – to make…

2023: The Year of Open Science

by Cable Green, Monica Granados Open Science

2023 is the year of the rabbit in the Chinese Lunar calendar, the year Voyager 2 is predicted to overtake Pioneer 10 as the second-farthest spacecraft from Earth, and the Year of Open Science. In an announcement by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), 2023 was declared the Year of Open…

Patrick J. McGovern Foundation Funds New CC Initiative to Open Large Climate Datasets

by Creative Commons Open Data, Open Science

Today, Creative Commons (CC) is excited to announce one million US dollars in new programmatic support from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PJMF) to help open large climate datasets. The twelve-month grant will enable CC to conduct key climate data landscape analyses and expand our work, bringing people together to create policy and practices to…

CC at UN #GlobalGoalsWeek 2022

by Creative Commons Events, Open Culture, Open Education, Open Science

Colored grid of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal icons.

Want to build a fairer, more peaceful world? Creative Commons does and we are joining over 170 other organizations in New York City during 16–25 September to accelerate progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during 2022 #GlobalGoalsWeek. CC’s deep engagement with the SDGs comes from two of our fundamental beliefs: First, that…

A Big Win for Open Access: United States Mandates All Publicly Funded Research Be Freely Available with No Embargo

by Cable Green Copyright, Open Access, Open Data, Open Science

An orange open padlock icon sandwiched by the words open and access.

Today the United States White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued dramatic guidance to all US federal agencies: update all policies to require that all federally funded research and data is available for the public to freely access and re-use “in agency-designated repositories without any embargo or delay after publication.” Creative Commons…

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science Ratified

by Cable Green Copyright, Open Access, Open Data, Open Education, Open Science

UNESCO Open Science Recommendation graphic: Open Science in the center of a circle, surrounded by a multicolored ring and then four interlocking puzzle pieces: Orange at the bottom labeled Open engagement of societal actors, pink at the right labeled Open science infrastructures, blue at the left labeled Open dialogue with other knowledge systems, and green at the top labeled Open scientific knowledge. At the top, five green circled icons point to the green puzzle piece, labeled Scientific publications, Open research data, Open educational resources, Open source software and source code, and Open hardware.

Graphic on page 11. UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. CC BY IGO 3.0 Creative Commons (CC) applauds the unanimous ratification of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science at UNESCO’s 41st General Conference. This landmark document is a major step forward towards creating a world in which better sharing of science is open and inclusive by…

Creating a Campaign to Increase Open Access to Research on Climate Science and Biodiversity: A joint initiative of Creative Commons, EIFL and SPARC

by Cable Green Open Access, Open Education, Open Science

Open Science No Text. By: Greg Emmerich. CC BY-SA 3.0

Open Science No Text. By: Greg Emmerich. CC BY-SA 3.0 As the United Nations Climate Change Conference, officially known as the 26th Conference of Parties, or COP26, continues in Glasgow, Scotland, I’m pleased to share some good news. The Open Society Foundations approved funding for Creative Commons, SPARC and EIFL to lead a global campaign…